, 1887-08-20
SURE 1T is PARKER.
Officers Confident That the High
Wayman is Captured.
1t Is Now Claimed That the Robber
Was Robbed.
Parkers More Numerous Than
Blenders Many Years Ago.

States Marshal Carr are still ill Nebraska,
but will probably return this evening with
the bold highwayman who so neatly re-
lieved the paymaster of 81, 400 in Albany
county last spring.
Messrs. Bash and Carr are positive, as
they have asserted all along, that the
right man has been captured.
A requisition is unnecessary in cases of
this kind. The officer will simply secure
an order Of removal from Judge Dundy,
of Omaha, and place the prisoner in the
United States penitentiary at Laramie.
Parker's friends threatened to have
him released by a writ of habeas corpus,
but discovered that such a document
would have no effect or authority in the
case.
While Maj. Bash, and the officers are
greatly pleased over the apprehension of
Parker the paymaster is surprised and
chagrined to learn that by unavoidable
delays in e%ffectin9 the arrest and a com
plication of circumstances he is no better
off financially thar the day after the oc-
currence of the bold robbery. Maj. Bash
has spent several hundred dollars in pur-
suing the thief and will be compelled to
refund the money which was stolen.
1t was rumored several days age that
Maj. .Chas. FL. Terrill, chief paymaster,
stationed at Fort Omaha, and a member OF
Gen. Crook staff, had privately detailed
three men to hunt down Parker and re
cover, if possible the money stolen by the
h~ighwayman. This natural statement
was followed by the somewhat sensational
yarn that the three special service men
had overhauled Parker, recovered about
5000 of the money. divided the plumber
and decamped to Canada.
This seemingly improbable report which
so plainly bore the story paper trade
mark is now implicitly believed by a num-
Der OF officials, who declare that it was
perfectly natural for three poorly paid aud
impecunious soldiers to suddenly turn dis
honest in the face of such a great tempta-
ton. This robbery of the robber is
said to have occurred two weeks ago. The
officers at Omaha supposed that the SOL
der detectives had simply deserted and
paid but little attention to their protracted
absence.
Another theory as to the cause of the
embarrassed financial condition of Parker
is that Howard Hunter, the horse thief
and forger. who was undoubtedly impli-
Gated in the robbery, secured a larger por.
ton of the booty. Hunter is known to
have spent a great deal more money than
he could possibly have realized from his
thieving and forging operations.
Now that it is reasonably certain that
Parker is captured, men suspected of the
robbery are being discovered in various
localities.
Last evening an Oregon stockman who
is driving a band of horses eastward,
called at the office of Sheriff Sharpless
and asked permission to gaze upon a pho
tograph of the now famous Mr.. Parker.
He was informed hat no likeness of the
gentleman was known to be in existence.
The drover then stated that on the 28th
of July he had met a lone horseman
in Jackson's hole, north of Green River,
Sweetwater county, heading for the latter
place. The solitary traveller purchased a
horse from the Oregonian and paid sos
for the animal, at the same time exhibit
ing a large roll of new bills. The horse
dealer gave a description OF the monied
stranger, which fitted Parker to a nicely.
Just a week ago Marshal Fince, of
Kearney, Neb., arrested a man by the
name of Bagnell, on the eastbound train.
The prisoner had $500 in new bills on his
person. He was released in the afternoon
on a writ Of habeas corpus, rearrested by
the marshal and turned over to the
sheriff from Dawson county, who took
him to Plum Greek Sunday morning.
He is also supposed to be the man who
robbed PaYmaster Bash.
Notwithstanding the many conflicting
rumors in circulation, the authorities here
are confident that United States Marshal
Carr has the genuine only, and original
Chas. Parker in custody at North Platte.
The prisoner has been fully identified by
several people who knew him well in that
section, and upon his arrival here will be
viewed by cattlemen for whom he has
ridden the ranges.
A special telegram to the Omaha Bee,
dated North Platte, Aug. II, says that
Parker had 81, $50 on his person when ar
rested. The report is discredited here.
In case he did have that sum it would be
exactly enough to pay the reward offered
for his apprehension by Mai. Bash.
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